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Chris Brooke
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"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
A flying visit to Oxford, so I popped in to see the cat.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Lieutenant LEONARD STOPFORD BROOKE, 110th Squadron RAF, reported missing 25th September 1918, later unofficially reported killed in action, Western Front, aged 23. He's one of only a very small number of Allied servicemen buried in Germany, at Bad Bergzabern Cemetery. My great uncle.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Here he is with Josephine, in September,
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Émile de Laveleye, Le Gouvernement dans la Démocratie:
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Inauguration of a new Bialetti machine.
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Not *especially* Tory these days (a West Londoner writes).
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Jo was interviewed by de Volkskrant, who asked about Ptolemy.
www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/de-we...
September 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Two foxes!
September 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@claireon.bsky.social I saw that you followed me On Here, looked at your bio, and wondered if you might be interested in the fact that I have a watercolour by (my first cousin) Charlotte Brooke (1740-93) above my desk?
September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Spot the difference between the idealists and the materialists.
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is from the chatbot, so may be horseshit, but I ran a version of your query through it, and this is what it said:
August 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
For #WorldElephantDay, here's J.-P.-L. Houël's classic depiction of elephants having sex in 1803 (from the British Library):

(h/t @diderotesque.bsky.social, author of the magnificent article "The Book of Job & the Sex Life of Elephants", Journal of Modern History vol. 91 [Dec. 2019]: pp. 739–75.)
August 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
No cheating, post your lock screen.
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A flying visit to Oxford, where it is delightful to see Ptolemy in his habitat.
July 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Chris Smith is the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
July 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
BBC will no longer broadcast ‘high risk’ performances
July 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Also!

This photo of the two of us makes me laugh:
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
As I once wrote...
June 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There is also that. Here's the relevant bit fromy my eulogy, at his funeral in 2018:
June 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
He does!
May 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
From Jon P. Gunnemann, "Habermas and MacIntyre on Moral Learning", The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 14 (1994), pp. 83-108:
May 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For what it's worth (i.e. not much) ChatGPT says not.
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This kitten *really* likes the #Eurovision frocks.
May 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM